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If you think weed should not be legalized, then you should be consistent and apply the same to alcohol and tobacco. Both of these substances do far more harm than weed with far fewer medical properties.
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There's reasonable balances between free and total access to liquor stores on every corner and locking up every bathtub moonshiner.
A good part of the reason prohibition failed was 10,000 years of societal dependence with no alternatives. Humans aren't built for the sedentary lifestyle and structured civilization we've built up and we really do need something to compensate.
We now have the technology and medical knowledge to reliably treat mental and physical ailments, we don't need ethanol as our cure-all. If I could snap my fingers and swap professional treatment and healthy recreational norms for traditional drugs I'd do it in a heartbeat.